vmware alarm cpu usage

Temporary spikes in CPU usage are not necessarily an issue, but persistent CPU usage may indicate a specific problem. You can use CPU performance charts to track CPU usage for features, clusters, resource pools, virtual machines, and vApps.

Problem

  • Host CPU utilization is consistently high. Maximum CPU utilization can improve the CPU queuing and downtime of its virtual machines on a host.
  • The CPU utilization of the virtual PC is greater than 90% and the processor availability is greater than 20%. This will affect the overall performance of the application.

Reason

  • The host usually lacks the CPU resources it needs to find the request.
  • There may be too many processors compared to the number of normal processor cores.
  • An I / O or SAN operation may have occurred that is placing the processor in an idle state.
  • The guest operating system is overloading the processor.

Solution

  • Make sure VMware Tools is installed on every connected host machine.
  • Compare the CPU fuel consumption of a virtual machine with the CPU utilization of other virtual machines on the host or with resource corruption. Stacked Histogram in Present and the virtual machine for a given host shows the CPU utilization for all virtual machines only.
  • Determine if the high uptime of the virtual machine is caused by the CPU utilization reaching the specified CPU limit. If so, increase the CPU limit for all virtual machines.
  • Increase the CPU share if you need more control over the virtual machine. The total time in the array may remain the same if the host system can be CPU limited. If the host’s uptime is definitely not decreasing, configure CPU reservations to receive high priority VMs so they can see the CPU cycles they need.
  • Increase

  • the amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine. This can potentially reduce the load on the hard drive array for applications that store caches. This can affect disk I / O and / or network traffic, which can certainly lead to lower CPU utilization. Smaller virtual appliances with dedicated resources typically accumulate significantly more CPU latency.
  • UmeReducing the number of critical processors in a virtual machine to the number required to run the workload. For example, a single-threaded application on a four-lane absolute virtual machine benefits from only one healthy vCPU. But keeping ESXi in three inactive vCPUs requires CPU bikes that could be used for other purposes, showing good results.
  • If the host is not already a member of a larger DRS cluster, add it to one. If the host is part of a DRS group, increase the number of hosts and move one or more virtual machines to their new host.
  • Upgrade the physical processors on each host as needed.
  • Use the latest version with your hypervisor software and enable TCP CPU save features such as segmentation offload, large memory areas, and jumbo frames.